
THE PRINCE SOCIETY. 



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Commonbjcaltlj of JHassacfjusetts. 



IN THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND 
SEVENTY-FOUR. 



AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE PRINCE SOCIETY. 



Be it enabled by the Settate and Houfe of Reprefeiitatives, in General Court 
affetnbled, and by the authority of the fame, as follows -• 

Section i. John Ward Dean, J. Wingate Thornton, Edmund F. Slafter, 
and Charles W. Tuttle, their affociates and fuccefTors, are made a corporation 
by the name of the Prince Society, for the purpofe of preferving and extending 
the knowledge of American Hiftory, by editing and printing fuch manufcripts, 
rare trafls, and volumes as are moftly confined in their ufe to hiftorical ftudents 
and public libraries. 

Section 2. Said corporation may hold real and perfonal ellate to an 
amount not exceeding thirty thoufand dollars. 

Section 3. This a(5l fhall take effedt upon its paffage. 

Approved March 18, 1874. 



Note. — The Prince Society was organized on the 25th of May, 1858. 
What was undertaken as an experiment has proved fuccefsful. This Act of 
Incorporation has been obtained to enable the .Society better to fulfil its 
obje6l, in its expanding growth. 




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CONSTITUTION. 



Article I. — This Society fhall be called The Prince Society ; 
and it Ihall have for its obje6l the pubUcation of rare works, in 
print or manufcript, relating to America. 

Article II. — The officers of the Society fhall be a Prefident, 
four Vice-Prefidents, a Correfponding Secretary, a Recording 
Secretary, and a Treafurer ; who together fhall form the Council 
of the Society. 

Article III. — Members maybe added to the Society on the 
recommendation of any member and a confirmatory vote of a 
majority of the Council. 

Libraries and other Inftitutions may hold memberfhip, and be 
reprefented by an authorized agent. 

All members fhall be entitled to and fhall accept the volumes 
printed by the Society, as they are iffued from time to time, at the 
prices fixed by the Council ; and memberfhip fhall be forfeited by 
a refufal or negleft fo to accept the faid volumes. 

Any perfon may terminate his memberfliip by refignation ad- 
dreffed in writing to the Prefident ; provided, however, that he fhall 
have previoufly paid for all volumes iffued by the Society after the 
date of his ele6lion as a member. 

Article IV. — The management of the Society's affairs fhall 
be veiled in the Council, which fhall keep a faithful record of its 

proceedings, 



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proceedings, and report the fame to the Society annually, at its 
General Meeting in May. 

Article V. — On the anniverfary of the birth of the Rev. 
Thomas Prince, — namely, on the twenty-fifth day of May, in every 
year (but if this day Ihall fall on Sunday or a legal holiday, on 
the following day), — a General Meeting fhall be held at Bofton, in 
Maffachufetts, for the purpofe of elefting officers, hearing the 
report of the Council, auditing the Treafurer's account, and tran- 
fa6ling other bufinefs. 

Article VI. — The officers fhall be chofen by the Society an- 
nually, at the General Meeting ; but vacancies occurring between 
the General Meetings may be filled by the Council. 

Article VII. — By-Laws for the more particular government 
of the Society may be made or amended at any General Meeting. 

Article VIII. — Amendments to the Conflitution may be made 
at the General Meeting in May, by a three-fourths vote, provided 
that a copy of the fame be tranfmitted to every member of the 
Society, at leafl two weeks previous to the time of voting thereon. 



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COUNCIL. 



RULES AND REGULATIONS. 

1. The Society fhall be adminiftered on the mutual principle, 
and folely in the intereft of American hiftory. 

2. A volume fhall be iffued as often as prafticable, but not more 
frequently than once a year. 

3. An editor of each work to be iffued fhall be appointed, who 
fhall be a member of the Society, whofe duty it fhall be to pre- 
pare, arrange, and condu6l the fame through the prefs ; and, as he 
will neceffarily be placed under obligations to fcholars and others 

for 



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for affiftance, and particularly for the loan of rare books, he fhall 
be entitled to receive ten copies, to enable him to acknowledge and 
return any courtefies which he may have received. 

4. All editorial work and official fervice fhall be performed 
gratuitoufly. 

5. All contra6ls conne6led with the publication of any work 
(hall be laid before the Council in diftinft fpecifications in writ- 
ing, and be adopted by a vote of the Council, and entered in a 
book kept for that purpofe ; and, when the publication of a volume 
is completed, its whole expenfe fhall be entered, with the items 
of its coft in full, in the fame book. No member of the Council 
fliall be a contractor for doing any part of the mechanical work 
of the publications. 

6. The price of each volume fhall be a hundredth part of the 
cofl of the edition, or as near to that as conveniently may be ; and 
there fhall be no other affeffments levied upon the members of 
the Society. 

7. A fum, not exceeding one thoufand dollars, may be fet apart 
by the Council from the net receipts for publications, as a working 
capital ; and when the faid net receipts fhall exceed that fum, the 
excefs fliall be divided, from time to time, among the members of 
the Society, by remitting either a part or the whole coft of a 
volume, as may be deemed expedient. 

8. All moneys belonging to the Society fhall be depofited in the 
New England Truft Company in Bofton, unlefs fome other banking 
inftitution fhall be defignated by a vote of the Council ; and faid 
moneys fhall be entered in the name of the Society, fubjeft to the 
order of the Treafurer. 

9. It shall be the duty of the Prefident to call the Council to- 
gether, whenever it may be neceffary for the tranfa6fion of bufinefs, 
and to prefide at its meetings. 

10. It shall be the duty of the Vice-Prefidents to authorize all 
bills before their payment, to make an inventory of the property 

of 



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of the Society during the month preceding the annual meeting 
and to report the fame to the Council, and to audit the accounts 
of the Treafurer. 

11. It fhall be the duty of the Correfponding Secretary to iffue 
all general notices to the members, and to condu6l the general 
correfpondence of the Society. 

12. It Ihall be the duty of the Recording Secretary to keep a 
complete record of the proceedings both of the Society and of 
the Council, in a book provided for that purpofe. 

13. It fhall be the duty of the Treafurer to forward to the 
members bills for the volumes, as they are iffued ; to fuperintend 
the fending of the books ; to pay all bills authorized and indoi-fed 
by at leaft two Vice-Prefidents of the Society; and to keep an 
accurate account of all moneys received and difburfed. 

14. No books fhall be forwarded by the Treafurer to any mem- 
ber until the amount of the price fixed for the fame fhall have 
been received ; and any member negle6ting to forward the laid 
amount for one month after his notification, fhall forfeit his mem 
berlhip. 




OFFICERS 



OF 



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Prefident. 
THE REV. EDMUND F. SLAFTER, A.M. . Boston, Mass. 

Vice-Prcfidents. 

JOHN WARD DEAN, A.M Boston, Mass. 

WILLIAM B. TRASK, Esq Boston, Mass. 

THE HON. CHARLES H. BELL, LL.D. . . Exeter, N. H. 

JOHN MARSHALL BROWN, A.M. . . .^ . Portland, Me. 

Correfponding Secretary, 
THE REV. HENRY W. FOOTE, A.M. ... Boston, Mass. 

Recording Secretary. 
DAVID GREENE HASKINS, Jr., A.M. . . . Cambridge, Mass 

Treafurer. 
ELBRIDGE H. GOSS, Esq Boston, Mass. 



THE PRINCE SOCIETY. 

1882. 



The Hon. Charles Francis Adams, LL.D. . . . Boflon, Mafs. 

Charles Francis Adams, Jr., A.B. Quincy, Mafs. 

Thomas Coffin Amory, A.M Bofton, Mafs. 

William Sumner Appleton, A.M Boflon, Mafs. 

Walter T. Avery, Efq New York, N.Y. 

George L. Balcom, Efq Claremont, N.H. 

Charles Candee Baldwin, M.A Cleveland, Ohio. 

Samuel L. M. Barlow, Efq New York, N.Y. 

James Phinney Baxter, A.M PorUand, Me. 

The Hon. Charles H. Bell, LL.D Exeter, N.H. 

John J. Bell, A.M Exeter, N.H. 

Samuel Lane Boardman, Efq Boflon, Mafs. 

The Hon. James Ware Bradbury, LL.D. . . . Augufta, Me. 

J. Carfon Brevoort, LL.D Brooklyn, N.Y. 

The Rev. Phillips Brooks, D.D Bofton, Mafs. 

Sidney Brooks, A.M Bofton, Mafs. 

Horace Brown, A.B., LL.B Salem, Mafs. 

Mrs. John Carter Brown Providence, R.I. 

John Marfliall Brown, A. M Portland, Me. 

Jofeph O. Brown, Efq. New York, N.Y. 

Philip Henry Brown, A.M Portland, Me. 

Thomas O. H. P. Burnham, Efq Bofton, Mafs. 

George Bement Butler, Efq New York, N.Y. 

The Hon. Mellen Chamberlain, A.M Chelfea, Mafs. 

The Hon. William Eaton Chandler, A.M. . . . Washington, D.C. 

George Bigelow Chafe, A.M Bofton, Mafs. 

Clarence H. Clark, Efq Philadelphia, Pa. 



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Gen. John S. Clark Auburn, N.Y. 

The Hon. Samuel Crocker Cobb, Boflon, Mafs. 

Ethan N. Coburn, Efq Charleflown, Mafs. 

Jeremiah Colburn, A.M Boflon, Mafs. 

Deloraine P. Corey, Efq Bofton, Mafs. 

Eraflus Corning, Efq. Albany, N.Y. 

Ellery Bicknell Crane, Efq Worcefter, Mafs. 

Abram E. Cutter, Efq Charleflown, Mafs. 

William M. Darlington, Efq Pittfburg, Pa. 

John Ward Dean, A.M Bofton, Mafs. 

Charles Deane, LL.D Cambridge, Mafs. 

Edward Denham, Efq New Bedford, Mafs. 

Prof. Franklin B. Dexter, A.M New Haven, Ct. 

The Rev. Henry Martyn Dexter, D.D Bofton, Mafs. 

Samuel Adams Drake, Efq Melrofe, Mafs. 

Henry Thayer Drowne, Efq New York, N. Y. 

Henry H. Edes, Efq ." . Charleftown, Mafs. 

Jonathan Edwards, A.B., M.D New Haven, Ct. 

William Henry Egle, A.M., M.D Harrifburgh, Pa. 

Janus G. Elder, Efq Lewifton, Me. 

Samuel Eliot, LL.D Bofton, Mafs. 

Alfred Langdon Elwyn, M.D Philadelphia, Pa. 

James Emott, Efq New York, N.Y. 

The Hon. William M. Evarts, LL.D New York, N.Y. 

Jofeph Story Fay, Efq Woods Holl, Mafs. 

John S. H. Fogg, M.D Bofton, Mafs. 

The Rev. Henry W. Foote, A.M Bofton, Mafs. 

Samuel P. Fowler, Efq Danvers, Mafs. 

James E. Gale, Efq Haverhill, Mafs. 

Ifaac D. Garfield, Efq Syracuse, N.Y. 

Marcus D. Gilman, Efq Montpelier, Vt. 

The Hon. John E. Godfrey, Bangor, Me. 

Abner C. Goodell, Jr., A.M Salem, Mafs. 

Elbridge H. Gofs, Efq Bofton, Mafs, 

The Hon. Juftice Horace Gray, LL.D Bofton, Mafs 

William W. Greenough, A.B Bofton, Mafs. 

Ifaac J. Greenwood, A.M New York, N.Y. 



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Charles H. Guild, Efq Somerville, Mafs. 

David Greene Hafkins, Jr., A.M Cambridge, Mafs. 

The Hon. Francis B. Hayes, A.M Bofton, Mafs. 

Thomas Wentworth Higginfon, A.M Cambridge, Mafs. 

W. Scott Hill, M.D Augufta, Me. 

James F. Hunnewell, Efq Charleflown, Mafs. 

Theodore Irwin, Efq Ofwego, N.Y. 

The Rev. Henry Fitch Jenks, A.M Lawrence, Mafs. 

The Hon. Clark Jillfon Worcefler, Mafs. 

Mr. Sawyer Junior Nafhua, N.H. 

George Lamb, Efq Bofton, Mafs. 

Edward F. De Lancey, Efq New York, N.Y. 

William B. Lapham, M.D Augufta, Me. 

Henry Lee, A.M Bofton, Mafs. 

John A. Lewis, Efq Bofton, Mafs. 

Henry Cabot Lodge, Ph.D Bofton, Mafs. 

Orfamus H. Marfliall, Efq Buffalo, N. Y. 

William T. R. Marvin, A.M Bofton, Mafs. 

William F. Matchett, Efq Bofton, Mafs. 

Frederic W. G. May, Efq « . Bofton, Mafs. 

John Norris McClintock, A.M Concord, N.H. 

The Rev. James H. Means, D.D Bofton, Mafs. 

George H. Moore, LL.D New Y'ork, N.Y. 

The Hon. Henry C. Murphy, LL.D Brooklyn, N.Y. 

The Rev. James De Normandie, A.M Portfmouth, N.H. 

The Hon. James W. North Augufta, Me. 

Prof. Charles E. Norton, A.M Cambridge, Mafs. 

John H. Of borne, Efq Auburn, N.Y. 

George T. Paine, Efq Providence, R. I. 

Daniel Parifli, Jr., Efq New York, N.Y. 

Francis Parkman, LL.D Bofton, Mafs. 

Auguftus T. Perkins, A.M Bofton, Mafs. 

The Rt. Rev. William Stevens Perry, DD., LL.D. Davenport, Iowa. 

William Frederic Poole, A.M Chicago, 111. 

George Prince, Efq Bath, Me. 

Samuel S. Purple, M.D New York, N.Y. 

Edward Afliton Rollins, A.M Philadelphia, Pa. 



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The Hon. Nathaniel Fofter Safford, A.M. . . . Milton, Mafs. 

Jofliua Montgomery Sears, A.B Bofton, Mafs. 

John Gilmary Shea, LL.D Elizabeth, N.J. 

The Hon. Mark Skinner Chicago, 111. 

The Rev. Carlos Slafter, A.M Dedham, Mafs. 

The Rev. Edmund F. Slafter, A.M Bofton, Mafs. 

Charles C. Smith, Efq Bofton, Mafs. 

Samuel T. Snow, Efq Bofton, Mafs. 

Oliver Blifs Stebbins, Efq Bofton, Mafs. 

George Stevens, Efq Lowell, Mafs. 

George Stuart, Jr., Efq Quebec, Can. 

Ruffell Sturgis, A.M . London, Eng. 

William B. Traflc, Efq Bofton, Mafs. 

Jofeph B. Walker, A.M Concord, N.H. 

William Henry Wardwell, Efq Bofton, Mafs. 

Mifs Rachel Wetherill . . . Philadelphia Pa. 

Henry Wheatland, A.M., M.D Salem, Mafs. 

John Gardner White, A.M Cambridge, Mafs. 

William Adee Whitehead, A.M Newark, N.J. 

William H. Whitmore, A.M Bofton, Mafs. 

Henry Auftin Whitney, A.M Bofton, Mafs. 

The Hon. Marftiall R Wilder, Ph. D Bofton, Mafs. 

Henry Winfor, Efq Philadelphia, Pa. 

The Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, LL.D Bofton, Mafs. 

Charles Levi Woodbury, Efq Bofton, Mafs. 

Aflibel Woodward, M.D Franklin, Ct. 

J. Otis Woodward, Efq Albany, N.Y. 

LIBRARIES. 

American Antiquarian Society Worcefter, Mafs. 

Amherft College Library Amherft, Mafs. 

Aftor Library New York, N.Y. 

Bibliotheque Nationale Paris, France. 

Bodleian Library Oxford, Eng. 

Bofton Athenaeum Bofton, Mafs. 

Bofton Library Society Bofton, Mafs. 

Britifti Mufeum London, Eng. 



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Concord Public Library Concord, Mafs. 

Eben Dale Sutton Reference Library Peabody, Mafs. 

Free Public Library Worcefter, Mafs. 

Gloucefter Public Library Gloucefter, Mafs. 

Grofvenor Library Buffalo, N. Y. 

Harvard College Library Cambridge, Mafs. 

Hiflorical Society of Pennfylvania Philadelphia, Pa. 

Library Company of Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pa. 

Library of Parliament Ottawa, Canada. 

Library of the State Department Wafhington, D.C. 

Literary and Hiflorical Society of Quebec . . . Quebec, Canada. 

Long Ifland Hiflorical Society Brooklyn, N.Y. 

Maine Hiflorical Society Portland, Me. 

Maryland Hiflorical Society Baltimore, Md. 

Maffachufetts Hiflorical Society Boflon, Mafs. 

Mercantile Library New York, N.Y. 

Minnefota Hifhorical Society St. Paul, Minn. 

Newburyport Public Library, Peabody Fund . . Newburyport, Mafs. 

New England Hifloric Genealogical Society . . Boffon. Mafs. 

Newton Free Library Newton, Mafs. 

New York Society Library New York, N.Y. 

Peabody Inflitute of the City of Baltimore . . . Baltimore, Md. 

Plymouth Public Library Plymouth, Mafs. 

Portfmouth Athenasum Portfmouth, N.H. 

Public Library of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Public Library of the City of Boflon Boflon, Mafs. 

Redwood Library Newport, R.L 

State Library of Maffachufetts Boflon, Mafs. 

State Library of New York Albany, N. Y. 

State Library of Rhode Ifland Providence, R.L 

State Library of Vermont Montpelier, Vt. 

Williams College Library Williamflown, Mafs. 

Woburn Public Library Woburn, Mafs. 

Yale College Library New Haven, Ct. 




PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY. 



New England's Prospect. 

A true, lively and experimentall defcription of that part of America, commonly called 
New England : difcovering the State of that Countrie, both as it ftands to our new-come 
EngliJJi Planters; and to the old Natiue Inhabitants. By William Wood. London, 
1634. Preface by Charles Deane, LL.D. 

The Hutchinson Papers. 

A Colleftion of Original Papers relative to the Hiftory of the Colony of Maffachufetts- 
Bay. Reprinted from the edition of 1769. Edited by William H. Whitmore, A.M., and 
William S. Appleton, A.M. 2 vols. 

John Dunton's Letters from New England. 

Letters written from New England A.D. 1686. By John Dunton in which are 
defcribed his voyages by Sea, his travels on land, and the chara6ters of his friends 
and acquaintances. Now firfl publifhed from the Original Manufcript in the Bodleian 
Library, Oxford. Edited by William H. Whitmore, A.M 

The Andros Tracts. 

Being a Colle6tion of Pamphlets and Official Papers iffued during the period between 
the overthrow of the Andros Government and the eftablifhment of the fecond Charter of 
Maffachufetts. Reprinted from the original editions and manufcripts. With a Memoir 
of Sir Edmund Andros, by the editor, William H. Whitmore, A.M. 3 vols. 

Sir William Alexander and American Colonization. 

Including three Royal Charters, iffued in 1621, 1625, 1628 ; a Traft entitled an 
Encouragement to Colonies, by Sir William Alexander, 1624; a Patent, from the Great 
Council for New England, of Long IHand, and a part of the prefent State of Maine ; a 
Roll of the Knights Baronets of New Scotland; with a Memoir of Sir William Alex- 
ander, by the editor, the Rev. Edmund F. Slafter, A.M. 

John Wheelwright. 

Including his Faff-day Sermon, 1637 ; his Mercurius Americanus, 1645, ^"d other 
writings ; with a paper on the genuinenefs of the Indian deed of 1629, and a Memoir by 
the editor, Charles H. Bell, A.M. 



Publications of the Society, 

Voyages of the Northmen to America. 

Including extrads from Icelandic Sagas relating to Wellern voyages by Northmen 
in the tenth and eleventh centuries, in an Engliih tranflation by North Ludlow Beamifli ; 
with a Synopfis of the hiftorical evidence and the opinion of Profeffor Rafn as to the 
places vifited by the Scandinavians on the coafl of America. Edited, with an Introduc- 
tion, by the Rev. Edmund F. Slafter, A.M. 

The Voyages of Samuel de Champlain. 

Including the Voyage of 1603, and all contained in the edition of 1613, and in that of 
1619; tranflated from the French by Charles P. Otis, Ph.D. Edited, with a Memoir and 
hiftorical illuftrations, by the Rev. Edmund F. Slafter, A.M. 3 vols. 



VOLUMES IN PREPARATION. 

1. Captain John Mason, the founder of New Hampfhire, including his Trafl on 
Newfoundland, 1620, the feveral American Charters in which he was a Grantee, and 
other papers; and a Memoir by the late Charles W. Tuttle, Ph.D. Edited, with hiftori- 
cal illuftrations, by John Ward Dean, A.M. 

2. Sir Ferdinando Gorges, including his Trafl entitled A Brief Narration, 1658, 
American Charters granted to him, and other papers ; with hiftorical illuftrations and 
a Memoir by the Rev. Edmund F. Slafter, A.M. 

3. Sir Humphrey Gilbert, including his Difcourfe to prove a Paffage by the 
North-Weft to Cathaia and the Eaft Indies ; his Letters Patent to difcover and poffefs 
lands in North America, granted by Queen Elizabeth, June 11, 1578. With hiftorical 
illuftrations and a Memoir. 

4. New English Canaan, or New^ Canaan ; containing an abftract of New Eng- 
land, compofed in three books. I. The firft fetting forth the Originall of the Natives, 
their Manners and Cuftomes, together with their tradlable Nature and Loove towards the 
English. II. The Natural Indowments of the Countrie, and what Staple Commodities 
it yieldeth. III. What People are planted there, their Profperity, what remarkable 
Accidents have happened fince the firft planting of it, together with their Tenets and 
Pradtice of their Church. Written by Thomas Morton of Cliffords Inn, Gent. Upon 
ten Years Knowledge and Experiment of the Country, 1632. Edited, with an Introduc- 
tion and hiftorical illuftrations, by Charles Francis Adams, Jr., A.B. This work is now 
in prefs. 

5. Sir Walter Ralegh and his Colony in America. Containing the Royal 
Charter of Queen Elizabeth to Sir Walter Ralegh for difcovering and planting of new 
lands and countries, March 25, 1584, with letters, difcourfes, and narratives of the Voy- 
ages made to Virginia at his charges, with original defcriptions of the country, commodi- 
ties and inhabitants. Edited, with a Memoir and hiftorical illuftrations, by the Rev. 
Increafe N. Tarbox, D.D. 



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